Comments on: Cover the Bases Interview with Tim Wiles http://baseballisms.com/podcast-author-tim-wiles.html Baseball Wisdom from the Diamond Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Umpireplb http://baseballisms.com/podcast-author-tim-wiles.html/comment-page-1#comment-5845 Umpireplb Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:23:17 +0000 http://baseballisms.com/?p=2922#comment-5845 Tim Wiles took a song whose entirety most people don't even know - it's only the refrain that gets sung during the seventh inning stretch of baseball games, never the stanzas - and somehow turned it into a fascinating study of a lot more than the song itself. It takes real talent to extract so much from so little, but he and his co-authors have created a totally fun and absorbing book. The inclusion of the CD with the book was a brilliant idea; my personal favorite rendition of TMOTTB is the Johnny Gaurnieri piano version, which amazes and delights.<br><br>Tim, along with HOF museum curator John Odell, is also largely responsible for the Hall's leading the way in highlighting the contributions that women have made to the game of baseball, most of which have been ignored or forgotten by other historians. The "Women In Baseball: Diamond Dreams" exhibit on the second floor of the museum is a long overdue tribute to the girls and women who have played, coached, umpired, or worked behind the scenes to make baseball the truly inclusive sport it's meant to be, and Tim deserves many thanks for helping to lift women's hugely underreported contributions to the national pastime out of obscurity through his efforts to bring this exhibit to fruition. He definitely has my appreciation, and so do you, Joe, for featuring him here at <a href="http://baseballisms.com" rel="nofollow">baseballisms.com</a> Tim Wiles took a song whose entirety most people don't even know – it's only the refrain that gets sung during the seventh inning stretch of baseball games, never the stanzas – and somehow turned it into a fascinating study of a lot more than the song itself. It takes real talent to extract so much from so little, but he and his co-authors have created a totally fun and absorbing book. The inclusion of the CD with the book was a brilliant idea; my personal favorite rendition of TMOTTB is the Johnny Gaurnieri piano version, which amazes and delights.

Tim, along with HOF museum curator John Odell, is also largely responsible for the Hall's leading the way in highlighting the contributions that women have made to the game of baseball, most of which have been ignored or forgotten by other historians. The “Women In Baseball: Diamond Dreams” exhibit on the second floor of the museum is a long overdue tribute to the girls and women who have played, coached, umpired, or worked behind the scenes to make baseball the truly inclusive sport it's meant to be, and Tim deserves many thanks for helping to lift women's hugely underreported contributions to the national pastime out of obscurity through his efforts to bring this exhibit to fruition. He definitely has my appreciation, and so do you, Joe, for featuring him here at baseballisms.com

]]> By: The Stadium Experience: Cooperstown Connection | pitchers & poets http://baseballisms.com/podcast-author-tim-wiles.html/comment-page-1#comment-5351 The Stadium Experience: Cooperstown Connection | pitchers & poets Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:31:09 +0000 http://baseballisms.com/?p=2922#comment-5351 [...] (A note vis-a-vis the research library: they’re awesome, they’ll help you find out about whatever you want, especially if you give them a day or two of advanced notice. Also, the director of research at the library, Tim Wiles, sung Take Me Out to the Ballgame on account of the book about the song that he co-wrote. If you heard the kind of conversations he got to have during his workday at the library, you would be jealous. He talks about it in this episode of the Cover the Bases podcast.) [...] [...] (A note vis-a-vis the research library: they’re awesome, they’ll help you find out about whatever you want, especially if you give them a day or two of advanced notice. Also, the director of research at the library, Tim Wiles, sung Take Me Out to the Ballgame on account of the book about the song that he co-wrote. If you heard the kind of conversations he got to have during his workday at the library, you would be jealous. He talks about it in this episode of the Cover the Bases podcast.) [...]

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